Gujarat: 7 get jail terms for harassing lioness in Gir forest
India
Updated: Tuesday, March 9, 2021, 11:08 [IST]
Gir, Mar 09: A court in Gir Somnath district of Gujarat has convicted seven people, including three tourists from Ahmedabad, and awarded them different jail terms for harassing a lioness in Gir forest in 2018.
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In an order issued on Monday, Judicial Magistrate First Class at Gir Gadhada, Sunik Kumar Dave, awarded three years rigorous imprisonment to six of the accused, while another accused was sentenced to one-year in jail.
The court also directed the district collector to take custody of a land allotted to the family of one of the convicts in Dhumbakarea of Babaria range of the forest where the incident took place.
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